Person profile: Yao Shuxia (姚淑霞)
This archive preserves the source record behind the Yao Shuxia (姚淑霞) profile: a Falun Gong practitioner from Hailin City, Heilongjiang, sentenced to six years and three months in prison on March 30, 2021, by the Hailin City Court.
Case chronology
- February 22, 2020 — Yao Shuxia is seized by Hailin Public Security Bureau domestic-security officers and the No. 1 Police Station and given a 15-day detention, which is not executed at the time.
- October 29, 2020 — Officers of the Hailin No. 4 Police Station take Yao to the Hailin detention center for a 15-day detention.
- November 3, 2020 — The detention expires; family members arriving to collect her are told the February detention was never served and she will be detained another 15 days.
- November 2020 — Before the second detention expires, the domestic-security chief tells the family Yao has been transferred to the Mudanjiang detention center under criminal detention.
- December 4, 2020 — The family learns her case has been sent to the Hailin Procuratorate.
- March 2021 — The family learns she has been indicted to the Hailin City Court.
- March 30, 2021 — The family receives a same-day notice to attend the hearing. Yao is tried that day at the Hailin City Court with no advance notice and no lawyer; she defends herself, rejects the prosecution’s charges, and accuses police of fabricating evidence. The court sentences her to six years and three months. She appeals to the Mudanjiang Intermediate Court; the appeal outcome is not publicly documented.
- August 31, 2026 — The Weiquanwang Information Center’s monthly in-custody roster records Yao Shuxia serving a 6-year-3-month sentence, confirming she remains in custody.
Source records
Record 1 — World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong, investigation notice (May 19, 2021). The detailed case record: identity, locality, full arrest-to-trial timeline, trial circumstances, the 6-year-3-month sentence and the appeal, plus the names of responsible officials and units. Notice (PDF). Note: this organization is aligned with Falun Gong; its characterizations of the proceedings are its own.
Record 2 — World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong, investigation order 2020 (No. 0188) (December 9, 2020). Corroborates the detention-stage facts: Yao Shuxia, Hailin City Falun Gong practitioner, seized November 2020 and held at the Mudanjiang detention center; names the same responsible personnel. Order (PDF)
Record 3 — Weiquanwang Information Center, monthly in-custody report, Issue 131 (August 31, 2026). Lists 姚淑霞 in the sentence aggregate at 6 years 3 months and in the full name index — independently corroborating the sentence and establishing in-custody status as of August 2026. Report
Evidentiary limitations
- The formal criminal charge was not named in any available source.
- No PRC court judgment, consular record, or state-media coverage of this case was found.
- The outcome of Yao’s appeal to the Mudanjiang Intermediate Court is not publicly documented.
- The prison where she is serving her sentence is not publicly known.
- The monitoring roster groups other names (Bai Hongyou, Liu Huixia) at the same sentence length; this reflects sentence-length grouping, not a shared case, and they should not be read as co-defendants.
Person profile: Yao Shuxia (姚淑霞)